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Focused on a specific case of the Shardara MPWI located in Low Syr-Darya Basin, South Kazakhstan and the Kyzyl-Orda oblasts (provinces) of Kazakhstan, this report looks at the choice and design of MPWI investment strategies that ensure a high...

Kazakhstan has made significant economic progress over recent decades. Health has risen on the policy agenda with a number of sector reforms introduced. This review uses globally recognised frameworks and indicators to evaluate Kazakhstan’s overall...

This report assesses how Kazakhstan measures up in the development and application of its national health accounts, delivering a set of recommendations to improve the health spending information necessary to support health system performance.

Kazakhstan has made exceptional economic progress since independence, achieving a GDP per capita on par with the Central European members of the OECD. As the economy has grown, health has attained a higher priority on the policy agenda, with the...

Kazakhstan has made exceptional economic progress since independence, achieving a GDP per capita on par with the Central European members of the OECD. Yet the strength of its economic growth has not been mirrored by concomitant improvements in health...

Since the early 2000s, Kazakhstan’s economic progress has been exceptional, and the country’s current GDP per capita is now on par with the Central European members of the OECD. These achievements, however, have been driven largely by sales of...

The Republic of Kazakhstan has made significant economic progress since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. GDP per capita has risen rapidly to put it on a par with the Central European members of the OECD. As the economy has grown,...

Kazakhstan has thoroughly revamped its primary health care (PHC) sector over the past ten years. Major reforms have been implemented and have resulted in substantial achievements: a specialised PHC workforce has been established and rapidly expanded,...

The typically integrated and oversized hospital system Kazakhstan inherited at independence has undergone various reforms, including the autonomisation of public facilities, the introduction of payments based on diagnostic-related groups and...

The System of Health Accounts 2011 framework considers current health expenditure (which equates to final consumption expenditure of resident units on health care goods and services) as the main spending aggregate and most international comparisons...

Improving efficiency, generally defined as the relationship between one or more inputs (or “factors of production”) and one or more “outputs” (e.g. number of surgeries) or “outcomes” (e.g. healthy life years) of the health system, is generally...

Kazakhstan has experienced an intermittent history regarding health accounts production over the last ten years or so. A more sustainable process has been put in place in recent years with the transition to the System of Health Accounts 2011...

Experience from many OECD and non-OECD countries has shown that the sustained production and use of a standard and robust health accounting framework, such as the System of Health Accounts 2011, can provide timely and accurate information on health...

Country experience has shown that the development and institutionalisation of National Health Accounts (NHA) is a cornerstone in the provision of sound evidence on health financing and resource allocations. The establishment of strong governance...

Kazakhstan has seen remarkable economic progress since the early 2000s, driven largely by exploiting its large reserve of natural resources. Its current GDP per capita is now on par with many of the Central European members of the OECD. At the same...